PHYS 470 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Here is a tentative course schedule (under construction):


Week Date Topic Reading Homework
1 21 Jan Introduction Ch. 1
 no HW
2 26 Jan
28 Jan
 Particle overview
fundamental interactions
 G Ch. 1
G Ch. 2
 no HW
3
2 Feb
4 Feb
 Special Relativity
Relativistic Kinematics
G Ch. 3
G Ch. 2 		HW1 solutions
4
9 Feb
11 Feb
 Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Groups
Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Spinors and Isospin
 G Ch. 2
G Ch. 4 		HW2
solutions
5
16 Feb
18 Feb
 Symmetries and Conservation Laws: Parity and Charge Conjugation
Symmetries and Conservation Laws: CP and CPT 		G Ch. 4
 HW3
solutions
6
23 Feb
25 Feb
 Bound States
Quarkonia 		G Ch. 4
 HW4
solutions
7
2 Mar
4 Mar
 Decays
Cross Sections 		G Ch. 6 HW5
solutions
8
 9 Mar
11 Mar
 (optional) Review
Midterm solutions 		G Ch. 6
 no HW
9
16 Mar
18 Mar
Spring break
10
23 Mar
25 Mar
 Matrix Elements
Dirac Equation		 G Ch. 6, 7.1 HW6
 solutions
11
30 Mar
01 Apr
 Solutions to the Dirac Equation
QED blinear covariants; the photon
G Ch. 7.1-2		 HW7
 solutions
12
06 Apr
08 Apr
 Feynman rules for QED
Casimir's Trick 		G Ch. 7 HW8
 solutions
13
13 Apr
15 Apr
 Guest Lecture: Anthony Hodges
QED and QCD: jets 		G Ch. 7.7-8
G Ch. 8.1-2 		HW9
 solutions
14
 20 Apr
22 Apr
 QCD: Feynman rules and color factors
QCD: asymptotic freedom and confinement		 G Ch. 8
 HW10
15
27 Apr
29 Apr
 Charged Weak Interactions
Neutral currents 		G Ch. 9
 HW11
solutions
16
04 May
06 May
 Local Gauge invariance, EWSB, Higgs, BSM
Review 		G Ch. 10 no HW
17
 Final Exam